Random links
- Nutrition: Dessert at Breakfast May Help Dieters
- Somehow I'm guessing that a diet that adds dessert to the diet is one that might be a bit more appealing. (If you look at how much sugar is in the typical coffee-ish beverage, you've got to wonder what fraction of people are effectively eating dessert with breakfast already).
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets
- It's the how-Target-figured-out-a-teenage-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-knew story. What I found most interesting was the pretense of non-targetting companies like it might make to avoid being seen as creepy - although it sounds almost creepier. "Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance. And we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works."
- Volunteers sought for simulated Mars mission and study of 'menu fatigue'
- Finally a job description for nerdy foodies: "The researchers are hoping to attract highly educated volunteers, including scientists and engineers, with the enticement of working on their own personal research projects while in Hawai'i." (Not quite haute cuisine though).
- Goats 'can develop their own accents'
- "Goats can develop their own unique accents accent from their surroundings, a British study has suggested. "
- 35 percent of British adults sleep with bear
- I was amused: "Twenty-five percent of male respondents reported they take their teddy bear with them when going away on business. Many said the bear reminds them of home and a cuddle helps them to nod off."